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Abraham Esau Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.190
  • Collection
  • 1945-1964

Collection is made up of his handwritten German translation of C. Henry Smith, which resulted in the book Die Geschichte der Mennoniten Europas (Newton, KS: Faith and Life Press, 1964).

Esau, Abraham, 1884-1955

Arthur W. Slagel fonds (photograph collection)

  • CA MHC 665
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1924

This fonds contains 276 photographs taken and received by Arthur W. Slagel during his 3-year assignment with Mennonite Central Committee from 1920-1923. The collection has photos of the relief work in Russia showing various aspects of the work including workers, headquarters, storage, distribution, seeded and distributed crops, transportation, buildings and homes. The photos were taken in locations such as Chortitza, Alexandrosk, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Ohrloff, Nicopol, and Sagradowka. There are images of the 1923 emigration group from Schoenwiese leaving for Canada. There are general scenic photos of the Dnieper rapids, the Kremlin and other sites in Moscow. Some photographs were likely given to Slagel from Mennonite workers in Russia, such as the Solomon Ediger family, the Peter Nikkel family, the Johann Janzen family, the Ohrloff teachers and others. And, finally there are photos of travels taken in England, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Egypt, Palestine and Syria.

Slagel, Arthur W., 1891-1943

Christian S. Bender and Annie (Kennel) Bender family photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.2.97.2
  • File
  • [1867?]-1949, 2002

This file contains photographs of ancestors and descendants of Christian S. Bender and Annie (Kennel) Bender. Items 19-30 are from a photograph album compiled by Joseph Kennel, probably after his return to Canada, containing largely unidentified photographs of Kennel relatives from France, Germany and Algeria.

Elma Esau Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.308
  • Collection
  • 1893-2000

Elma E. Esau was born September 14, 1917, to Edward and Clara (Claassen) Esau near Whitewater, Kansas. She graduated from Whitewater High School in 1935 and attended Bethel College for two years. She returned to Bethel and completed her BA degree in 1969. From 1943 to 1981 she volunteered and then worked for MCC and its subsidiary, MTS (Menno Travel Service). Elma Esau began her MCC service at the Ypisilanti, Michigan, relief training unit in 1943. She then worked to set up and manage relief clothing centers in Ephrata, Pennsylvania; Kitchener, Ontario; and Newton, Kansas. In April, 1945, she went to the MCC Center in London, England, and from there on to serve in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. In the summer of 1947 she traveled around the US speaking to women’s groups at Mennonite churches about MCC’s relief work in Europe, and then she remained at Akron until April, 1949, when she went to Gronau, Germany, for additional relief service. In 1951 she escorted Mennonite refugees to Brazil and Uruguay. After two years in the MCC Personnel Office in Akron, she began her work for MTS in Newton in 1953 and continued there until 1958. In 1959 she ran the MTS office in Amsterdam. From 1962 through 1965 she directed the MTS office in Beirut, returning from mid-1966 to 1967, when the office was evacuated during the 6 Day War. She worked in numerous other locations for brief terms before returning to the MTS Akron office from 1969 to 1980, where she directed the tour department and lead many tours. She retired to her family farm near Whitewater in 1981 and moved to Kidron-Bethel in 1991. She was a lifelong member of the Emmaus Mennonite Church. She passed away on November 16, 2009. The collection provides unique and extensive documentation, including original correspondence and photographs, of the MCC work with refugees during and after World War II. In her MTS career she kept diaries and photographs from the numerous tours she directed. She also collected tourist literature from the dozens of countries she visited, and during the steamship area, kept items like menus and tickets. This collection also contains the papers (1 cubic foot) of Edward Esau (Elma’s father), who was born in Hohendorf, Am Trakt, Russia, on November 27, 1887. He immigrated to the United States in 1908 to avoid the Russian Forestry Service. He lived for a year with family in Bessie/Cordell, Oklahoma, and then moved to the Whitewater/Potwin area of Kansas. From 1908 through 1936 (except 1918-1920) he received frequent letters from his family and friends in Russia, primarily from his brother, Gerhard, and sister, Renate. The letters he received constitute almost the entirety of his papers and are all in German, but many have been translated and published by Elma in Russia Letters, 1995.

Esau, Elma, 1917-2009

Erich Goettner Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/061SC
  • Collection
  • 1934-1937

Included are two letters addressed to German pastor Erich Goettner. The first is written by Christian Neff of the Mennonitisches Lexikon and dated October 14, 1934. A transcription of this letter is also included. The other letter is dated September 12, 1938. The second letter was discovered in a copy of a Mennonitsches Lexikon when it was delivered to the Mennonite Historical Library in 1948.

Neff, Christian

Menno Travel Service (Akron, Pa.) Records

  • US MCUSAA X/028
  • Collection
  • 1952-2007

This collection consists of minutes, the financial reports and correspondence of Orie O. Miller's office, and correspondence related to the 1967 Mennonite World Conference in Amsterdam.

Menno Travel Service (Akron, Pennsylvania)

Michael Jantzi Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/068SC
  • Collection
  • 1810

The collection consists of some older correspondence dated 1829 and later, as well as some transcriptions and family history documents.

Jantzi, Michael

Susanna Amalia Krehbiel Memoir

  • US MCUSAA HM1/551SC
  • Collection
  • 1911

The collection consists of a memoir written by Susanna Amalia Krehbiel, describing her childhood in the Palatinate and her family's move to North America.

Krehbiel, Susanna Amalia, 1840-

The Mennonite Story photographs

  • CA MAO XV-32.8
  • File
  • [ca. 1950]

No information was acquired with these photographs. They may have been used for display purposes at The Mennonite Story. They appear to be taken at sites of Anabaptist and Mennonite historical interest in France, Switzerland or Germany, and North America.

The Mennonite Story, Inc.

Tjeerd Oeds Hylkema Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/435SC
  • Collection
  • 1950-1957

The collection includes correspondence,manuscripts and miscellaneous writings.

Hylkema, Tjeerd Oeds, 1888-1962